Recently published research by Barber and colleagues shows that the ice cover was even more fragile at the end of the melt
season than satellite data indicated, with regions of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas covered by small, rotten ice floes.
Not exact matches
The month full of headlines that
satellite camps brought Jim Harbaugh is over, but college football
season remains more
than a month away.
Re # 173 (Dan Allan): Large - scale reasons for the chaos include planetary tilt (=
seasons), a high rate of rotation (= major Coriolis effect), much more solar heat applied at the equator
than at the poles, unevenly distributed land, air and water, a molten core resulting in tectonic activity including continental drift and volcanos, the occasional hammer from space, a really large
satellite creating major tides in addition to minor ones from the sun, plus some stuff I'm probably forgetting.
BTW, if
satellites don't show more difference
than + / - 8 ppmv CO2 in the mid-atmosphere in all parts of the globe, while over the
seasons some 20 % of all atmospheric CO2 goes in and out, then I call that «well mixed»...
The ice extents for each day of the growth
season from December 2010 to March 2011 were significantly lower
than those in previous years, and the values for most days were at record lows for the
satellite era.